Google Acquires Green Parrot Pictures — Google has acquired Green Parrot Pictures, an Irish company that makes tools to manipulate digital video and images. — The acquisition is apparently being driven by YouTube, which could use Green Parrot's tools to help users make their videos better.

Google Search app for iPhone—a new name and a new look — If you need to do a Google search on your iPhone or iPod touch it's now faster and easier when you use our redesigned Google Search app, formerly Google Mobile App. If you've been using Google Mobile App for a while, you'll notice that things look different.

Making Twitter more secure: HTTPS — Today, we're taking an important step to make it easier to manage the security of your Twitter experience - we are adding a user setting that lets you always use HTTPS when accessing Twitter.com. Using HTTPS for your favorite Internet services …

AOL Asks Us If We Can Tone It Down — Earlier this week I interviewed Duncan Jones and Jake Gyllenhaal at SXSW, at the press junket for their movie The Source Code. While the film doesn't have a huge tech angle other than the title, I thought it might be good video content for TCTV …

What has Twitter become? — At O'Reilly, we've long believed that one criterion for long-term success is creating more value than you capture. When you do so, you create the possibility for an ecosystem that's larger than you are. You create a healthy environment in which you, your partners, and even your competitors can thrive.

Apple Postpones iPad 2 Launch in Japan — With Japan facing a mounting crisis in the wake of last week's devastating earthquake and tsunami, Apple has decided to postpone the launch of the iPad 2 in the country. — “We are delaying the launch of the iPad 2 in Japan while the country …

Netflix Has 60 Percent Of Digital Movie Market — If you're going to pay for a movie over the Web, you don't have to use Netflix. But there's a very good chance you'll do just that: A 60 percent chance, says NPD. — The consumer tracking outfit says Reed Hastings' company owns 61 percent …

Zappos Stops Shipping to Canada — E-commerce in Canada generally sucks. The selection is crappier on the Canadian equivalent of U.S.-based stores (think: Amazon), shipping is more expensive and the overall experience is much worse than in the U.S. And now, Zappos is shutting down completely in Canada.

New Google Apps feature release process — 100% web applications have many advantages over legacy and single tenant hosted technologies, and you consistently tell us that the ability to access improvements as they become available is one of the most important.

Verizon grabs 12% of U.S. iPhone market in just one month — Mobile analytics company Chitika has been keeping a running tally of just how many iPhones are running on both AT&T and Verizon. Using the data flowing across its ad network, the company has calculated that almost 1 out of every 8 iPhones …

Intel, Facebook Talk Up New “Micro” Servers — Intel, once known mainly for pushing computing performance to the limit, now also designs chips to help save power and space in computer rooms. Major purchasers of server systems, including Facebook, seem to be listening.

Facebook Launching Local Deals Subscription Service — Facebook is showing a special story in the news feed urging users to subscribe to updates about its Deals location-based check-in rewards program, and to invite their friends to subscribe too. A link in the story leads to a new subscription page …

Apple A5 - Samsung, not TSMC — In the last 24 hrs our lab guys have torn down the iPad 2 and come to the conclusion that the main innovation is the A5 chip. Flash memory is flash memory, the DRAM in the A5 package is 512 MB instead of 256 MB, and the touchscreen control uses the same trio …

BBM Social Platform - Now in Beta! — At BlackBerry® DEVCON 2010, Research In Motion® (RIM®) announced the BlackBerry® Messenger (BBM™) Social Platform. Today, the BBM Social Platform officially moves into public beta. BlackBerry platform developers …